A venomous pit of rattling rubes

Nicely represented in this Trumpist opinion piece is MAGA's collective unconsciousness. (No Jungian analytical psychology was harmed in the production of that sentence.) With unrivaled group unawareness, Trump's most devoted followers proceed in universal conformity to their inbred values of honorable Americanism — which is to say, they haven't any. This passage, from the linked post, serves as the ideal kind of archetypal source material sought by researchers of reptilian NestThink.

I wish I could report that Democrats have abandoned illegal aliens but I cannot lie. They will fly overseas to protest the deportation of an MS-13 Salvadoran to El Salvador, but refuse to stand with American citizens who illegal aliens raped or murdered their loved ones. A party that hires Antifa thugs in masks to riot wants to unmask ICE agents who uphold federal law.

First, a secondary observation. Among the syntax-garbling, accusative-case-challenged writer's mess of comical idiocies I count nine denied lies. Were I his defense attorney I'd beg him to plead "not guilty" as charged by reason of shocking stupidity. It's not that this clown — who, almost as shockingly, autobiographs that he's a former newspaperman, a trade whose singular necessity I once thought was literacy — refuses to read fact-based journalism; it's that he quotes stacks of it but only as evidence of its Marxist folly. So there's another affirmative defense.

Second, the first observation. That of stupidity on circus stilts, whose stellar performance in the paragraph provided is the phrase, "ICE agents who uphold federal law." As middle-school sentence parsing would have it (or is that history?), the phrase begins with a direct object. For the writer, "Ice agents" are instead an indirect objective; his sole, daily-jackhammering concern is to justify Trump's every act, regardless of any objection. Reason, reality, reported facts, a black-not-(yet)-whited-out verity on Founding parchment, none concerns him. Hence, "uphold," "law." The comment I left him:

Deporting undocumented immigrants without due process violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and reams of explicit federal law. So, although you're right about "lawlessness," you're evidently clueless about fundamental civics, American freedoms, and our founding document. Far worse, aligning with this lawlessness of such vast scale is, put bluntly, an overt act of treason against this once-great nation's virtues. 

From the objectionable source of my reaction, no reply, no counterargument. There were, however, readers' replies, but still no counterargument. Here, from "Birmingham," is one such retort which to my astonishment went beyond the MAGA nest's usual, and I gather dispositive, hisses of "troll."

Wow. You are SO virtuous. I bet you smile at yourself in the mirror every morning and congratulate yourself on being so much better than those meannies enforcing the law.

OK, I admit it, that got my back up a bit:

You're damn right I take pride in maintaining constitutional Americanism as tidal waves of MAGA's profound ignorance and sheer stupidity — "enforcing the law"; God you're dumb — flood and strain to drown everyone the tinpot dictator hates (an endless list), as well as the rule of law. Like the Vichy French, Trumpers are fascist collaborators. Just pray that someday decent Americans don't do to you what decent, postwar Frenchmen did to their country's traitors.

You got it, spelling that out was an unthinking waste of time, though included here is Birmingham's comment to further emphasize the "sheer stupidity" of these people — done above in a mere, em-dashed six words. To wit, notwithstanding the incontrovertible notation of due process-averted deportations as constitutionally unlawful acts, which my respondent just read, he turned right around and re-vomited the Trumpist writer's idiotic assertion that such deportations "uphold federal law."

I've mentioned before that my long-standing argument of simple ignorance being the most proximate as well as predominant cause of MAGA's psychosis was, I am now convinced, in gross error. It's simple-mindedness that looms nakedly before us. Yet MAGA's dominant strain of extraordinary stupidity is of a peculiar breed, in that their cerebral misfortune lies in congress with the otherwise highly improbable ability to read.

Sadly, comprehension missed out in their progenitors' spermatozoan race to pierce the motherload of even bare functionality. Incomprehensible to others is that MAGAites can slither through the indisputable in print — again, Trump upholds the law (in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution, a fucking fact of American jurisprudence repeated dozens of times right before their eyes) — and yet never concede the bloody obvious.

Peculiar indeed. And poisonous to the body politic.